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Over the last year, the phenomenon of Purple Punch has taken the world of cannabis, filled with knockoff Girl Scout Cookies and OG Kush phenotypes, and turned it upside down. We got the chance to sit down with one of the strain\u2019s breeders, known as \u201cThe Village,\u201d who helped make purple great again.<\/p>\n
The now-legendary Larry OG x Grandaddy Purple cross was originally bred by\u00a0Supernova Gardens<\/a>, but the breeder behind The Village was the first cultivator to take the strain to the full-scale production levels that really brought it into the mainstream.<\/p>\n \u201cI kind of knew about Purple Punch before I got it, but I didn\u2019t know too much about it. I hadn\u2019t seen many examples,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The Village first got his hands on a cut of Purple Punch through his friend known as \u201cBudologist.\u201d At the time, Budologist had already gifted him a variety of strains, including Pennywise and others he had acquired throughout the years, and the two were already working on an extraction project together. When Supernova traveled south to California in search of the state\u2019s elite genetics in 2013, he gifted Budologist \u2014 and one other person \u2014 a cut of his Purple Punch.<\/p>\n \u201cBudologist stopped doing his indoor and told me, \u2018Man, I want to give you the Purple Punch, but I got to make sure it\u2019s OK with Supernova because he was adamant about not giving it out,\u2019\u201d The Village said, remembering his first chat about the possibility of getting his hands on the punch.<\/p>\n Budologist pitched Supernova on the handoff, who in turn gave The Village his stamp of approval. With Supernova\u2019s blessing, the cut was now in The Village\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n \u201cI remember four weeks into flower I realized, \u2018This does smell like blue Powerade,\u2019\u201d said The Village, speaking about the first batch of Purple Punch he grew. Even though he only ran a couple plants in the test batch, he quickly realized he was working with something special. So he started growing lots of it.<\/p>\n The first couple times he brought his Purple Punch to the Oakland, California-based dispensary\u00a0Harborside<\/a>, the initial infrared tests on their QuantaCann machine came back a middling 12 percent THC and\u00a0one of the world\u2019s biggest pot dispensaries said they weren\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n \u201cIt kind of caught me off guard,\u201d The Village said. \u201cI thought, \u2018Oh man, I have this growing in every room and the top dispensary in California, if not the world, doesn\u2019t even want it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Then, he got that same batch tested at\u00a0Steep Hill<\/a>, a cannabis testing laboratory in Berkeley, California, and it ended up testing at 18 percent THC.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of testing in general,\u201d The Village said with a laugh. \u201cI love the pesticide aspect, but the whole [THC and terpenes tests] are a bit off. I remember testing my most fragrant Jackpot, one of the loudest strains I was growing back then, and it was the lowest testing terpene profile I had. It was obviously wrong. They were missing terpenes or not testing for the right terpenes in cannabis.\u201d<\/p>\n Regardless of test results, The Village\u2019s hunch about the popularity of Purple Punch came true when the masses got their first taste of the strain at full-scale production levels and they couldn\u2019t get enough of it. Because only a small number of cultivators had the strain, and none of them were growing it full-scale, Purple Punch began to become associated with The Village.<\/p>\n Then things got a little weird. Despite the work that The Village and Budologist put in to protect the strain, somehow, Purple Punch was slowly getting out into other cultivators\u2019 gardens.<\/p>\n When the Jungle Boys got the cut, it was a historic moment for California\u2019s two biggest markets. Purple Punch made its way to Los Angeles, where it\u2019s now just as popular as it was everywhere else, and the\u00a0Jungle Boys\u2019<\/a>\u00a0Wedding Cake cut made its way north. Then, The Village gave the Wedding Cake cut to the\u00a0Alien Labs<\/a> cultivators, who stormed into the San Francisco Bay Area with it and took a Cannabis Cup home in the process.<\/p>\n Once Purple Punch found its way out into the growing scene, despite the best effort on their part, The Village and Budologist wanted to move forward the best way they knew how \u2014 and the result was the formation of the arguably fastest-growing seed company in history.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what happened: Budologist had some seeds from the original batch of Purple Punch. He and The Village reached out to Supernova and got his permission to hunt down a male. That male would be used to dust the best clone-only phenotype of Purple Punch. From those seeds, another male would be found possessing the most similar traits possible to the original. Supernova was down for the plan.<\/p>\n That project was two years in the making. On April 20, 2017, Budologist and The Village\u2019s new seed company collaboration,\u00a0Symbiotic Genetics<\/a>, released the first batch of second generation, F2, Purple Punch seeds to the world in two California locations. Eight months later, major cannabis publications named Purple Punch their strain of the year.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t expect Symbiotic Genetics to be this big,\u201d said The Village. \u201cI can honestly say Symbiotic is bigger than The Village and I just see that with the demand for seeds over flower. At the end of the day, seeds bring a bigger crowd because people all over the world want them, while with flowers, it\u2019s kind of a \u2018you have to be there\u2019 thing.\u201d<\/p>\n We asked The Village for his essential tips for all the new Purple Punch cultivators out there.<\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, she\u2019s pretty vigorous,\u201d he said. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t get powdery mildew very easily, she\u2019s not too dense. Basically, she\u2019s a badass plant. It\u2019s not like she stretches a lot, and it\u2019s not like she needs less food. I don\u2019t treat her any different.\u201d<\/p>\n Purple Punch Strain Statistics<\/b><\/p>\n Lineage: Larry OG X Granddaddy Purple<\/strong> Originally published in Issue 32 of Cannabis Now.\u00a0LEARN MORE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n TELL US,<\/b>\u00a0have you tried Purple Punch?<\/p>\n The post Strain Review: Purple Punch Swings for the Fences<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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